Printer&#39;s furniture.



Fx W. ANDERSON.

PRINTERS FURNITURE. APPLICATION FILED APR.28, 1915.

Patented June 20, 1916.

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FORTESQU'E ANDERSON, OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 MORGANS &.

WILCOX MFG. COMPANY, OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PRINTERS FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 20, 11916.

Application filed April 28, 1915. Serial No. 24,407.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FoRTEs UE W. ANDER- son, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Printers Furniture, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to lock-furniture, and the object of the invention is to provide furniture having self-contained and easily operated means whereby the form may be efficiently and securely locked up.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction and arrangement by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show two-approved forms of the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a bar or strip of furniture provided with two locks. Fig. 2 is a side or face view of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 33 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a vertical section on the irregular line 4l4 in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a corresponding transverse vertical section on the line 5-5 in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a face view of a short bar or block having a single lock. Fig. 7 is a corresponding plan view. The remaining figures show a modified form of the invention as applied to a short bar having a single lock. Fig. 8 is an elevation of the front face of such block. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 10 is an elevation of the rear face. Fig. 11 is a vertical longitudinal section taken on the line 11-11 in Fig. 9. Fig. 12 is a vertical transverse section taken on the line 12-12 in Fig. 9. Fig. 13 is an end view of one of the bolts employed in such modification. Fig. 14 shows the opposite end of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, A is a rectangular bar of metal which may be of any suitable length and width to serve as furniture with the matter and chase in which such matter is held, and perform the functions usually performed by the ordinary furniture and quoins. The bar is recessed at two points on the front face as at A A to receive each the circular head B of a screw or bolt B extending transversely through the remaining portion of the bar.-

Each recess is circular or segmental at the lower portion to match to and rece1ve the head B and serves as a housing therefor in closing the head for about three-fourths of its circumference, it is then widened in.

holes 5 b intersecting each other at a right angle, and the head is preferably knurled circulnferentially, as shown.

In operating the locks the bar is placed in position relatively to the chase or adjacent furniture and the matter to be locked, and the screws turned by engagingthe knurled surface by the fingers or by any suitable tool until the plane heads of the screws engage with the adjacent surface of the chase or furniture, a pin or other implement as C is then'inserted in one of the holes I) and serves as a lever in turning the screw to induce the desired locking pressure.

By partially inclosing the head B of the screw in the segmental portion A of the recess the head is supported and guided, and the inner circular face of the recess serves as astop for the pin C in limiting the extent of its thrust through the head, thus preventing contact of the pin with the table or bed on which the form lies, and insuring the operative engagement of the pin with the head during the lockingup process. The recess is of sufficient depth to permit the head to be completely retracted flush with or a little within'the front face of the bar, and the angular faces A A are so located as to permit the insertion and proper engagement of the pin C with one of the holes 7) in all positions of the head.

Ordinary threads may be cut on the screws B and the bar A correspondingly tapped to receive them, and such threads will serve successfully; the threads shown, in which the bevel is all toward the front with a square rear shoulder, is preferred for the reason that such thread offers an eX- ceptionally reliable abutment to resist the strong thrust of the screw. 1

The bar is preferably lightened by omitting portions of the metal from the upper and lower faces, and retaining a central horizontal web and sufficient metal in the applied as a single screw in vicinity of the screws to insure the desired 2 strength and stiffness.

Figs. G and 7 show the same construction a-short piece or block of furniture.

Figs. 8 to 14 inclusive show a modification of the invention as applied to such short bars or blocks, in which the recess A is in the form of vertical central slot con.- taining a nut B engaged with the thread. on a screw or bolt B having ahead l3 adapted to engage with the chase or other surface as before described, and received in'a corresponding cavity in the front face ofthe block. The body of the screw is flat- ,tened above and below to produce opposite plane faces thereon, and its end is received in a corresponding rectangular slot A in the rear face of the block which serves to prevent rotation of the bolt when the nut is turned to advance or-retract the head.v

The central slot A is shown as extending completely through the block, so that this form may be used either side up, and the margins of the slot in one direction are inclined as at A to permit and guide the insertion of a pin or analogous implement to theradial holes 0 b in the nut.

'It will be understood that this modified form may be employed: with all lengths of furniture, and that in both forms as many of the looks or screws may be employed as may be found necessary or desirable.

The construction in both forms permits the use of extremely narrow furniture; lock-up can be made successfully in a fourem space, and the screws permit a wide range of adjustment.

I claim In a device of the character set forth, a bar, a headed screw extending transversely of such bar and adapted to impinge against an adjacent surface in a form, the plane face" of the head of said screw serving as a bearing, said head being mounted in a recess closed at the bottom and the interior face of which recess serves as a stop to limit the inward thrust of the pin, the head of said screw being of greater diameter than the body of the screw and the shoulder thus formed engageabl'e with said face of the recess.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FORTESQUE W. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

E. E. CARI-(ERAS, JNo. L. RTORDAN.

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